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Mark Messier

"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."

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Akiroq Brost

"I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them."

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Akiroq Brost

"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."

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Akiroq Brost

"Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field."

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Akiroq Brost

"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."

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Akiroq Brost

"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."

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Akiroq Brost

"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."

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Akiroq Brost

"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."

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Akiroq Brost

"Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk."

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Akiroq Brost

"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."

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Akiroq Brost

"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."

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Mark Messier
"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."

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Mark Messier
"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."

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Mark Messier
"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."

Winning

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Mark Messier
"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

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Mark Messier
"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."

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Mark Messier
"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."

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Mark Messier
"I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year."

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Mark Messier
"I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey."

Career

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Mark Messier
"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."

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Mark Messier
"My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with."

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